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SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1890.
TJIB KEWb FAST TRAIN SERVICE.
The speelal Gal vis-
ion News train, run-
ning: over the Galres-
ton, Ilonston and Hen-
demon division of the
International and
Great N orthern rail-
way, leave* Galveston
for Houston at 4 a. in.
each dar. It malce«
following connections at Moustou: Gal-
fsston, Harritbnrg and 6an Antonio rall-
w»t. leaving Houston at 7.40 a. in., arriv-
ing At 6an Antonio at 4. to p.m. Texas and
Hew Orleans railway, leaving Houston at
I.OAs« in., arriving at New Orleans at 7.4ft
p. Houston East and West Texas rail-
way I'Jferensond's), leaving Houston at 8.30 a.
m., a» vivlug at Bhreveport at 10 p. m. San
Astosi'* And Aransas Pass railway, leaving
Beustoit at ** m., arriving at San An-
fonto at 61**5 P- m- Houston and Texas ten-
Jrml raila *7. leaving Houston at 11.80 a. in.,
arriving a* J*enl»4>i» at 10.4ft p. nj. The
prlbie ohje ^ nt Th* News train is to place
the paper o *** • considerable portion of
Tesas before breakfast, and it does It.
Becoirnlalng it* great convenience to the
traveling public * • passenger eoaoti Is at-
tached for their , v^mmwlatloD, by which
■scans those 4esl.*f»C *W spend the night
la Galveston and vi* connection With
*11 the early trains t*wt Houston.
I ^ 1 1 1
THE NEWS' lHArElWO AGENTS.
The following are thet.wJIng represen-
tatives of The Galveston Nkws and Tbh
Dallas News, who are aut.Hariaed to soli-
cit and receipt for subscription* adrer-
tiaenients for either of the publications:
E. P. Boyle, W. D. Carey, Joe Leer Jamason,
B. B. Throop and H. P. Simonds.
A. H. Belo Co., PublU'bers.
GalTCktoD, lex., Mxjr 1. 189G.
POLITICAL LIBERALISM.
Lethargy comcs naturally after delirium.
A temporary lull follows the commotion
and oxcitement of a cpntest among demo-
cratic candidates for the governorship in
Texas to sway the primaries and determine
tho complexion of the stale convention, It
is needless to say that the contest was very
unequal from the beginning. It U needless
to recite here the devices and processes by
which avowed enemies of the party, its
policy und principles, managed to capture
its organization as a preparatory step to
dictAtlug its ticket and its platform. What
may ba more profitable just now is
t6 reylfivv moral atid intellectual conditions
which made it impossible for the opponents
of HogK and a plenary commission to meet
the issue successfully with a campaign of
discussion and popular education. Their at-
tempt to do so after long and fatal delay
was like going into a court where tho ad^
verse party had already packed the jury,
where the jury had already resolved upon a
verdict, and wheie nothing remained to be
done except to formulate and proclaim
the result. It will be found that the
muss of the peculiar partisans of
Hogg and a plenary commission
were like men in an epidemic spell of som-
nambulism. They were utterly out of pre-
paration for giving mental audience to
views and arguments not in exact keeping
r-ith their previously acquired opinions.
Having ears they would listen to nothing
that did not chime in with the sounds and
son^s which had charmed them. Having
eyes they would see nothing that did not
blend with the colors and shapes of their
promised land of political conquest. Hav-
ing minds they refused to entertain
aDy thoughts but those that would
expand and deepen the picture by passion-
ute fancy traced upon the tablets of their
mental slumber. And here we have an
Illustration of what Is perhaps the most
formidable of all the dangers that attend
the cultivation of any form or trend of in-
tense partisanship in politics. With the
spread and persistency of such partisanship
a liberal political education for either young
or old in the country's citizenship becomes
impossible. By a psychological law of pres
judice tho young partisan trained to inten-
sification of onc-aided views and to habitual
impatience of contradiction or even of in-
quiry becomes prematurely old. His brain
becomes prematurely hardened. Cerebral
tracts, which for years of healthful study
and useful exploration should be virgin
soil and blooming expanse, are made im-
practicable and unlovely with the grooves
and barriers of arbitrary assumptions and
impracticable dogmas. Cerebral cells, once
open and responsive to all sources and in-
fluences of intelligence, by tho accuniulatod
force of unwholesome and roiterated im-
pressions, come to vibrate only to
the touch of some morbid affec-
tion or some equally morbid evasion.
In this way unmitigated partisanship
tonds to establish in all political parties a
hopeless senilism. And this is not the
worst. Its tendency is to divide the whole
body of citizenship into hostile encamp-
ments, morally and intellectually Incapa-
ble of reconciliation and rtady upon the
first ripe occasion to extend a conflict of
ideas to a conflict of arms. This is a danger
inseparable from the partisanship which
operates to destroy candor, receptivity and
flexibility of Intellect aud to senilize facul-
ties that ought to be freely and ceaselessly
exercised with freshness and vigor
in the search for truth and the
acquisition of knowledge. In short, it is
only Dolitlcal liberalism that can p romise
or provide an effective antidote to partisan
senilism. And this suggests an appropriate
fleld of labor for such bodies as the Liberal
association of Texas, which has just held a
session at Waco. Among the stated ob-
jects of the association aro these: "To en-
courage the study of man in all his rela-
tions; to Beek to realize truth in life; to aid
in those movements that tend most to the
improvement of the individual and of so-
ciety and to the uuity aud freedom of man-
kind." Tho study of man in all his relations
is in nothing more desirable than in the
psychology of prejudice as it affects parties,
classes atd sections. The mluds of men
must be liberalized before politics can be
liberalized. Only thus can the work of
realizing truth in life and of promoting iho
unity and freedoae of mankind be hopefully
prosecuted. At present the trend of poli-
tics is to cultivate not a spirit of unity bat
a spirit of implacable antagonism; not
manly freedom of thought but servility as
well as intolerance of temper; not to realize
truth in life but to beset the individual and
society wl'h a howling pandemonium of
clashing superstitions and reciprocating
frenzies.
TilE HUNGARIAN RAILWAY SYS-
TEM A SUCCESS.
The canal and the railway are discussed
by Edmuud J. James and Lewis M. Haupt
in Nos. 3 and 4, volume 5, of the American
Economic association's publications, of
which The News has received a copy. Mr.
James argues that the canals, neglected as
they have been, Itave tende<T~"™t0
cheapen heavy freights and thus de-
velop industry and hence to make
new business for railroads with the increase
of the costlier freights growing out of in-
dustrial and social activities to which the
mudsill traffic contributes. An interesting
paper added in the form of a note discusses
the new system of passenger fares adopted
in Hnngary. On the 1st of August it trill
be one year since the zone system was
pot into effect. Starting from a cen-
tral point the roads are divided into
fourteen zones or runs. The first zone in-
cluded all stations within 35 kilometers of
had the same rate Id thia country
It would be possible to buy a rail'
road tickut to Chicago f»-om New York
for $3 10. The fare from New York to
Philadelphia would be 33 cents," says Pro
fecsor James. As regards simplification
ninety-two tickets supplant 70Q which were
formorly kept in every large office. Rail
roucl tickets are now sold like postage
stamps, at the postoffices, hotels and cigar
shops. Passenger traffic increased from
3,381,200 during live months in 1SS8 to 5,584,-
600 in the Bame period of 1889, and later re
turns show still greater increase:
According to the latest reiort brought down
to March 31, 1S90. the tiamc tn the fcttite rail-
whjb h:id increased to v,770.(i7B as compared
wltL m,8D1,85'J lu the ccrresponding period be-
fore the introduction of the zone tariff, an in-
crease of 169 per ceut. The result Is a till mo: e
remarkable with regard to traffic between
neighboring stations. Whereas under the old
nvstem only 255,000 person! used the railways
for such journeys their number rose during tne
above ei^ht monthB to 4,367,586. It is reported
that the governm nt contemplates a still
further reduction,
The receipts from the traffic tinder the
new system were 18 per cent greater than
under the old, while the operating expenses
were not greater than the old. "In other
words, passenger traffic will re-
spond to lower ratel, A- thing which
some railroad managers have denied."
Hungary is not deemed the most favorable
but in some respects the least favorable
country in Europe for such an experiment.
Its population is neither dense nor rich.
All Europe is attracted by its success in
this experiment. The railways are to a
large extent private and not state property.
TO PERFECT THE MILITIA.
The Pennsylvania National Guard went
into annual encampment at Mt. Gretna
yesterday. The number of men in camp Is
8500 state troops and 400 United States
soldiers. This huge encampment will be
under strict military discipline, and the
result will be of a most beneficial charac-
ter. The organization of tho Pennsylvania
militia is perhaps the most perfect of any
state in the union. There are company and
battalion organizations, which maintain
their individuality at home bv adopting
company uniforms and names, but
these are laid aside just as soon
as the troops aro ordered out by the regis
mental or brigade commanders. Texas has
the material for the organization of a mil-
itia force which would be a credit to the
sta'e and a dangerous rival for national
honors. But this material can not be organs
ized and utilized under existing laws gov-
erning tho militia. The legislature might
make appropriations to provide uniforms,
armories aud a per diem compensation for
the men when in actual service. In return
for this tho men could be enlisted
for a term of from three to five
years and required to attend drills
with regularity and be present at
the annual encampment for Instruction.
Tho Individual companies of Texas are sec-
ond to none in the United States, and wero
these companies given the necessary finan-
cial support by tho state,they would carry
into the regimental and brigade organiza-
tion the same proficiency which now exists
in the companies, and with that will come
the spirit of friendly rivalry for proficiency
which would put the entire state troops on
the high plane now occupied by the com
panies. With a per diem compensation for
service and an allowance for armory rent
the strength of the militia would be doubled
In a short time, as there are hundreds
of young men In the state who are
deterred from joining tb« militia by reason
of tho expense, and one of tho heaviest bur-
dens a company has to carry Is that of
armory rent. The relief for the militia is
in its own hands. Brforo the next legisla-
ture meets there should be a suitable bill
framed providing such measures of rolief
as are necessary, and then every man,
whether officer or private, ehould use his
efforts with members of the legislature
to have such a bill passed. One year of
service under a good militia law with the
state rendering the necessary financial as-
sistance would elevate the Texas volunteer
guard and imbue it with such an esprit de
corps that it would rival like organizations
in the older states.
the polioy of a general withdrawal of priv-
ileges The difficulty of the free zone seems
to be susceptible of an adjustment by means
of the amended bill.
THE FOREIGN FRUIT TRADE.
Tropical fruits are consumed to au in-
creasing extent in the northern cities, and
now that the city population of the north
west is becoming considerable this trade
must grow there as m.ich as in the east.
There is a nominal fruit exchange iu New
York, and the members are talking a £00d
deal about making it an actuality instead
of a news room; in other words, to buy and
sell fruit contracts on the floor of the ex-
change. Galveston is the right place to
land and ship the tropical fruit which is
needed by St. Louis, Chicago and all the
oltiesofthe west, and this will be an im-
mense trade when it is worked up. Then
Galveston will have a fruit exchange such
as New York is talking of.
THE STATE PRESS.
Texas Are
Bectioxalism, as it is called, will exist
as long as speculating, close corporation
parties exist. Politicians need it in their
business. It has been easy to pander to the
prejudices of the people and gain their ap
probation and votes. Sectionalism has
been used with wonderful effect in this
country from the beginning, and there is
probably not mors of It at present than
there was fifty years preceding the late
war. It may manifest itself first in a sem-
blance of friendly rivalry, but runs natur-
ally to vlrnlence and bitterness. Section
alism has existed in all countries and in
all ages. It begins with the elementary sel
fishness of human nature itself and will
never be completely "wiped out." Only
liberal education can mitigate or neutral-
ize it,
A democratic paper insists that the re-
publicans will be called upon to explain the
disappearance of the surplus. That will be
easy enough. When the republican stumper
reaches the point where the explanation
comes In, all he will have to do Is to say
"surplus" and run his hand down to the el-
bow into his breeches pocket.
Tns alliance candidates havo bruised the
persimmons badly in Alabama, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Kansas and elsewhere,
but they have not succeeded In knocking
down much fruit.
The proud bootblack makes his pittance
of breeches and shirt harmonize with a
highly colored cravat that cost him (3 by
tying up his toe with a red rag.
Justice moves with a leaden heel, and it
'.s to be hoped that some vigorous young
man with a box-toed shoe will serve Editor
Shepard and save delay.
TrtE excited expression of the cross-eyed
man would seem to indicate that his e7es
aro racing to see which will get across first.
THE CAT OUT OF THE DaO.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald intimates that a plan of polit-
ical campaign in the interest of Mr. Blaine
was at the bottom of the bouse inquiry for
documents bearing upon the Behring sea
question. Such part of the corresnondenco
as could be made useful was prepared and
announcements made to the house through
Mr. Hitt, Since then Mr. Hitt has
stated that he can not explain
the delay in sending the infor-
mation. Mr. Harrison has been undecided
whether or not to sand tho correspondence.
Meanwhile ou the other side Premier Salis-
bury has taken steps to give the entire cor-
respondence to the public through the house
of commons. This will not suit Mr. Blaine
so well as the partial plan, aud it will
perhaps uotsuit President Harrison so well
as total silence. The Herald has obtained a
pretty close view of the correspondence and
reveals the fact that while Mr. Blaine was
officially tied to keep Mr. Harrison's secrets,
a newspape* publication saved tho coun-
try from acts of war on both sides. It was
Harrison's secret purpose to go on smash-
ing the sealers. The British were surprised
to learn that such a purpose could be con-
templated while amicable negotiations
were pending. Their diplomatic action was
such as already stated. Mr. Blaine received
in silence a verbal message from Sir J.
Pau»cefo«e which was practically an ulti-
flHH-Wn:— Wr. -tJts»n» knew that HtrrlaoBl
ceursewaa intfift-D-dtiH. en
REASONABLY AMENDED.
On July 1 Senator Reagan made a speech
in his official place on bis bill which at first
provided that the privilege of sending goods
in bond to Mexico l>e withdrawn until Mex-
ico abolishes the free zone. Such is the de-
sire of western frontier merchants who feel
the competition of duty-free and conse-
quently of smuggled goods. But ThfNews
has asked, would not the case lie the same
were Mexico all nndera very low tariff or
free trade? However, Senator Reagan has
the center, and after that each zone ia 15 I done a good act in moving an amendment
kilometers across, up to the 13th and 13th : to the bill. As it stood it would suspend all
Castles In the air are much batter than
tho dark monument which tho sleepless
victim builds up of imaginary grievances.
Never mind. The lazy fellow will have
his night some day. He will sleep down
his enemies and old Timo himself.
THERE is no such thing as "bad gram-
mar." If it is not good grammar it is not
grammar at all.
TnK devil has never begged anybody to
give him his dues. He will look after them
In due time.
The oucumber first makes the mortal
turn his toes down and has him turn them
up later.
Speaker Rekd's gag is the toughest one
that has ever been gotten off on the dem-
ocrats.
Man is a wonderful piece of machinery.
When his elbow bonds his mouth flies
open.
General Fremont was something more
than a path finder; be was a path maker.
TnE newspaper man turn* out his mas-
terpiece when bo reports his own scrap.
A bad man may never be made to come
to time, but he must come to eternity.
Bo not heap live coals of fire npon the
head of the baldheaded man.
to
The milk of human kindness is apt
sour.
The angry fellow would ppnch his en-
emy's eyes out just for a blind.
No matter how fast the snail
we call it a snail's pace.
may run.
Birds are often shot on the wing while
sitting on tho ground.
TnE umbrella thief owes his calling to
the sun and the rain.
Man Is a fool and woman is thrown in
for good measure.
Tns much married man is a citizen of the
United States.
The heel of oppression.!! the politician's
mud sill
Let the greenhorn go to grass.
A Kew Economical Method-
How are you getting on in your new
place, Anna?"
"Pretty well: only the folks are In the
hatn* of photo#*M>»««»K »wvMiio«. '
"Well, that ana'i matter to y«u In the
least."
Think so? Don't you be too positive.
The fact is, they take the likeness of every
joint on the table before it is sent down into
the kitchen." [Grenzbote.
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at
Tw« Bt. JaiT.c
Mttxreas. whir I, it regard*
•lli/4-) [<bllanthro]'.*U wl
prBrlir.b'e M they pre .
and hi. fellow telori
Am best i-ti Into
to takecfwuiraaoe
tar tT bill aow u
Anier csn rmut»« typifies the n-.«rt bar
form, of war. la that it aesalls not arm
home - [hoadOTi tptciaL
Trie hostile tariff party is a beast ol
The policy of that party Is to
nnt «aly of the
the peec
ci a of to'
* tin? i-i« as are as ira-
obsolete. While Mr.
rmers ate endr.-ivoring
thare. It wonld be ocst
e f*<n rt it the ho«t:le
coG«lder*tioo la the
ies Lbe n;o*t btrbarcn -
■■^■■■sk i
zones, which are 25 kilometers. The 14tb
rone Includes all stations more than 335
kilometers away from the center. Tickets
are sold by zones. There are local tickets
for a journey from one station to
the next, and other local tickets
(of parsing one station. The zone
ticket i> at the price of travel to the
ICJ
tOrulsfe-
•att.eOeld,
not
bat
the
take every
enemy on the
friend io tine of
I third
zone i
the r
whlct
The ,
457 m
»t<Ul'>n. Thus average
re.lm.-eJ. It is true that 1
first cl.H» ticket is chs
ite of 10 z *"b"« to cover
there are some' io '8 pass
res teat distance l? 731 Xil<
lea. Tte fares |3 2C £rst
I and $1 60 third elms.
transit in bond. Ti'E News Las heretofore
suggested that such a sweeping act would
be coercire and would dare Mexico to
retaliate with a like suspension, resisting
the attempt of the t'nited States to control
her tariff policy. New York in- rchantj
testify to the same apprehension. Mr. Rea-
gan's amendment is that the withdrawal
fares are | of the transit hooded pririit-oo be limited to j
>r the 14*,h I apply to goods for the free zone, not for (
«ed for at , other parte of Mexico. Thosauate accepted
an area in it Thia is reasonable. The Mexicans can '
ifixt hauls. , not say that it is proposed with an unfair 1
meters, or intention. They would still have their »
rlasg, $2 82 chief trade privileged, and it wonld not be i
' if we j to their interest to take the initiative io [
THE OLD CLOCK.
A thar in the corner
What it's »tvod lor sixty year.
With its blit while facea-smllis'
An' its braas weights shin in' clear.
An' it 'pears as if somv secrut
Bortuh harm 'twixt ft an' me.
For I never pa?* the sta'rway
Vcpt it winks richt knowin'lr.
Time 1 fetched home my Mirandy—
•links, how well 1 iniud the day;
Oid clock sized her up. an' then, sirs.
Off it hanged like it would say,
"Pooty liitle critter, ain't she'r
In berhennlt fall ©' flower*.
With them carls in two bis bunches
Fallin' round each ear in showers.**
When the twins was born, bamantby.
An'h«»r irother, lienry C'lay,
Thet old time-piece like to bueted,
Fahly i ozzed itself away.
Fo.ks ".owed thet it uoe Jed 'Ilia'*
Slio! I knowed 'tw*s uniy joy
'tis i! sensed the Breckenridges
lied a bran'*new r. and buy!
So we ondersteod each ether.
Me an* thet oid clock, i 'low
When my t.ine come - An' I'm t« ted
Throo the hallway, still an* slow,
Thet bright face will he*ra upon n e.
Whisp'rin* as ther pack me by,
"Cluasr up, Israel! you'ro unly
Dead; an most folks bee to die.**
lEt* Wilder Mel* late on. ia Fudge.
What the Papers Throughout
Talking About.
Thp Huntsville Item says:
A telogram was received on Friday an-
nouncing tho death of Mr. Sam Y. Smith
at Denver, Col., in the 49th year of his age.
He was born and raised in our county and
made this his homo until after tho late war,
when he went with lils father, J. Carroll
Smith, to Galveston, whore ho lived until
1872, when he returned to Huntsville and
entered into the banking business with Dr.
H. C. Oliphint. He continued in the bank-
ing business for several years. Mr. Smith
then moved to Chicago and engaged in bus-
iness for a couple of years, afterward goin
to Denver, where he permanently locate
•rlth his family until the end came. He
was elected mayor of Huntsville and served
one term, and also represented our county
one term in the lower branch of the legisla-
ture.
The Item sayst
The population of Hontsvllle, according
to the census returns, wo opine will be be-
tween 1800 and 1000, exclusive of the prison
population.
The Item is not a good counter. Con^.
vlcts can not vote, but there is no law to
exclude, them from being counted in the
census. Thenumberat Huntsville would
add materiatiy to the returns.
The Crockett Courier says:
One of the convicts who killed the guard
at the coal camps in Cherokee last Saturday
was pursued to the Neches, aud so warm
and cioso was the pursuit that the convict
stripped oil, left bis clothes and gun on the
other side of tho river and swam over to
the Houston connty side near the mouth of
Hickory oieek. He was followed, and on
Monday last was shot down by the guards
and left dead and naked in the woods on
this side of the Neches. The latest report
is that he had not boen removed or buried.
He was a white man.
With a far-away look toward the Sunset
city, the Courier remarks:
Some people seem to be satisfied to live,
as Tennyson says, "in a land where it Is aK
ways afternoon."
Fort Worth papers are luxuriating in
local news, such as it is. The Mall says:
"Poor old Houston. She Is languid."
Touch railroads and die. The Brenham
Banner says:
Walter Gresham and Judge Goldthwaito,
two railroad lawyers of Galveston and
Houston, want to go to tho legislature.
They ought to know that they would be
like flsh out of water in the next legislature
of Texas.
Is the next legislature to be as fanatical
against railroads as Candidate Hogg?
Scarcely. Goldthwalte will be there and so
will many other moderate, conservative
and reasonable men. They know all about
railroads and their relations with and
duties to the public, and will see that jus-
tice is done to all parties.
The old theory that filth is unhealthy re-
ceives many checks. The Post says:
Houston is not as clean as it might be,
but it is to-day the healthiest city In Texas.
All Texas cities are now enjoying, and
generally enjoy, good health. Houston is
proverbially healthy, but so are they all.
The Sau Antonio Light says:
Twenty-ono railways, with an aggregate
of 2000 miles of rail and a capital stock of
over 156,000,000, have been sold under mort-
gages since January 1, and yet theunin-
strutted [sic] seem to think that a railroad
is a money bag, and if it is squeezed money
must come. This country is killing too
many of tho geese that lay the goldon eggs.
The Laredo Gate City says:
Every summer wanderer that returns to
Laredo at once proclaims that this is the
most delightful climate that he or she has
struck. Though the mercury runs high
here, the dry atmosphere and the delight«
ful breezej render it more agreeable than
places where it does not attain such an
altitude.
In an adjoining column to that which
contains the above the same paper says:
Not a drop of rain has fallen in this sec-
tion since about the beginning of the second
week in June, something over five weeks
ago, and the continued drouth is beginning
to tell on vegetation. The crops have been
materially injured, the grass on the prairie
is dying, wells are drying up.
The Marlin Ball of Thursday says:
The Waco Brazos exploring party left
that city Tuesday and will probably reach
the falls to«morrow. When they reach the
falls they will have somo difficulty in pass-
ing over. They can either .haul the boat
around the falls or run it over on t.'ucks.
The water is about three inches deep now.
The friends of navigating tho upper parts
of Texas rivers by steam should revive the
old invention of a distinguished Texan,
which prepared a contrivance that would
run oqually well on land or water.
The editor of the Temple Times is an old
educator, and though no longer a teacher
except throngh the press, he adheres to the
old mediaeval system. The Times says;
The craze that has swept over the ocan-
try In the past decade fo.- practical educa-
tion will in a few years be as odious
as it is popular at present. The
facts may not dawn on the
parents who are clamoring for practical
education, but their sons and daughters
will pronounce the strained moonshine edu-
cation a failure, and when lu thair turn
they make demands for education for their
children it will bo for anything better than
the so-called practical education that con-
sists of a smattering of a little of this and
less of that,
The education that qualifies the student
for the practical duties of life, and enables
him best to support himself and famtlyaud
contribute to the physical and moral wel-
fare ot the community is that In which the
state and the great mass of the people are
most concerned. The dead languages and
abstract sciences are well enough for those
wko have need of them or no need to be-
come self-supporting and useful citizens.
To learn everything taught in first-class
universities requires a great deal of time
and money.
. .Xeachers and editors are poorly paid, but
their patrons expect them to know every-
thing and tell it in a nay to make others as
wise as themselves. Physicians and some
other people need only look wiae and say
very little to pass as wise in their vocations,
but the editor Is expected to know and tell
all things like a cyclopedia. One of the
craft says:
The worst vice of journalism, aa of poli-
tics and literature, is ignorance. In the
rush and glare of public events the moat
conscientious and competent journalist
WILL TEACH GUARDSMEN.
The Regulars tVlio Will Olve Pointers st
Mount Gretna.
The coming encamptnont of the National
Guard of Pennsylvania is attracting atten-
tion all over tho country. Concoruing th®.
camp the New York Sun says:
It is only v/ithin a few years thr.t officers
of the regular army have taken any inferesfc.
in the affairs of the National Guard or Vol-
unteer militia of tho various states- Co.
operation between these two orgp.nization»
of military defenders began about seven
years ago, when one or two
first-rate officers of tho regular
army were assigned to visit the
annual encampmont of the National Guard,
for the purposo of assisting the militia of-
ficers in effecting good discipline aud skill-
ful maneuvers, and of helping along %
friendly feeling. Since then small dotach-
ments of regulars have gone into camp with
the National Guard, notably at Mount
Gretna, Pa., for the same purpose. This
year the National Guard of Pennsylvania
begins its camp service at Mount Gretna
8500 strong on July 18, and 400 30ldiers of
the regular army will be with thetn.
Naturally enough, the officers of the regu-
lar army seek to send the best men of tho
service to such events, for the sake of pre-,
senting a fine example to the< militiamen.
The minor officers esteem it a, coir.piimenu
that their wea shoujd be selected for such
service. Five distinct bodieb (ft regular
troops will go to Mount Gretna thia week,
two batteries, two cavalry troops and
one battalion of Infantry. Tho
army stationed in this vicinity will
be represented by Light Battery K, First
artillery, sixty-five men, now at Fort Ham-
ilton. The fortunate commander of thia
battery is CaDtain John W. Dillenback.
There is no little anxiety among the officers
and men so to deport themselves at the en-
campment as to outshine Captain Turn-
buil'o light battery from the Third artillery
at Washington, which has also been as-
signed to duty at Mount Gretna.
But there is something in the occasion
even more interesting thnn the rivf.iry with
the Washington battery or tho opportunity
to show off before the citir.en eoldlers of
Pennsylvania. Over a year ago the govern-
ment made preparations for providing its
batteries with new equipments, including
everything from guns to grease pots. A fu'l
set has been completed at last, and battery
K, First artillery, has been honored with
it. The equipment arrived at Fort Hamil-
ton in sections, and the last installment
was received last Tuesday. Everything
was made at Watervleit arsenal. West
Troy, and new with all the mortem im-
provements, is the briefest way to character-
ize the outfit.
To begin with, there aro four new rifled
guns, four being the complement of a bst-
tery in time of peace. Their oniy novelty
to a casual observer is their color, a dark
brown instead of the dead black usual ia
big shooting pieces. There are, however,
several important features, some wholly
new and others introduced for the first
time in light artillery. Each gun weighs
801 pounds, and the carriage 1100 pounds.
The effective range is 3i*£ miles. The pro.
jectile is a shell weighing 13X pounds,
fired by a charge of 8% pounds
of powder. Heretofore the Krupp
method of loading at tho breech
has been employed In light artillery, but in
these now guns the De Bange system, used
in the French army, has been applied. This
employs the "interrupted screw." The
lining of the breech chamber is a screw,
upon whiah the end of tho breech may bo
turned one quarter way nroundby applying
a lever from the outside. Such a turn,
bring the threads even with breaks iu the
screw, so that the end may be pulled back
on a hinge. This tlevice has been iu use in
heavy guns for somo years.
Au entirely new feature consists of two
thin disks of "expansive steel" at the very
back of the breech chamber. In every dis-
charge from an ordinary gun there is neces-
sarily some escapo of ga«es at the breech.
The steel disks ox pftrul by the force of thA
recoil, close the tube tight and effectually
prevents any escape of gas whatever. An-
other novolty consists in brakes upon
the wheels of the carriage. Ordinarily
the recoil from u discharge amounts to
about four feet. The brakes are adjusted
before each shot and begin to act simul-
taneously with the recoil, so that the
wheeisslide alonj the ground rather than
roll over it. By this device the recoil is re-
duced to less than a foot. The sights are
not novel in themselves, but tbey are a
great improvement over the old ones, fitted
with spirit ldveis, wind gauges and eleva-
tion scales adjustable to the sixteenth part
of a degree. These are so perfect in prac»
tice that it is the rule rather than the ex-
ception for good gunners to hit tho bull's
eye at a distance of a mile and a half,
The caissons have various improvements
of their own, aud the battery Wagon has a
more complete supply of tools, spades,axes,
crowbars, etc., than was evor before put in-
to such a conveyance in this country. Thera
is a full outfit for a carpenter's shop iu one
box, aud in another all the necessities of »
blacksmith, including a small forge. And
so it goes even to the trappings of the
horses, where clasps have been substituted
for buckles in evety possible place, every
device designed to s»cure speed. Battery It
will not carry a single old implement to
Mount Gretna, not even a blanket or lan-
teru, or rope to be used in pulling back the
gau carriage in a fighting retreat.
Explained at Last.
'They say Quay has the president's car."
'That accounts for it. Quay bas stuffed
the ear with cotton and Harrison hasn't
heard the charges against the senator."
[Chatter. _
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
Secretary Rusk has just celebrated his
60th birthday auniversary.
The Empress Frederick has collected
8125,000 for the new children's hospital at
Berlin.
Mr. Harrison has received a present of *
silk quilt. Truly this is the present adminis-
tration.
Dr. Peters, the German explorer, has
reached the coast from the interior of Africa.
He is quiet well.
Miss Louise Imogene Guiney, the poet-
ess. thinkf nothing of walking twenty miles oa
her poetic feet.
The emperor of China has sent the Ger>
man emperor a Urge box of playthings—little
dragoaaaudSUaksWOr illsfl<ra little sons.
Dr. DneajeaeA ba» ootfapfeUI his tentb
—c' - J—, M'Aurti'latrtnlrrfstirof finance.
must sometimes write on subject* of which
his knowledge is general rather than par-
ticular. In that case he must avoid par-
ticular. and confine himself to generalities.
Hut there is in jonrnalism, not so much in ;
tills or that paper as in portions of nearlv
all papers, a want of acquaintance with j
history, with literature, with politics, with
law, with life, which is really discreditable. <
Men who know so much can generally 1
find more profitable employment than edit- '
ing a small newspaper, and even all this
knowledge may fail to make a successful
journal. Many of the famous authors of i
the last century have at one time edited
papers Or magazines that failed for want of
patronage. It Is the baslness manager who
makes a successful paper. Tact is needed
in the editorial department as much as
talent. Many gifted writers need the di-
rection of a judicious man who doe* not
write. A brilliant writer nay prove won*
than a dull on& |
year of sefvloc is"
He was formerly a professor at the University
of Cracow.
Paul GifTord has discovered a terrific ext
plosive, which makes do report. Any exploitive
which promises a noiseless Fourth ot July
should be encouraged.
Governor Nicholls' veto of the lottery bill
has already won Mm the nomination of vice
president from a Boston newspaper, do shines
a good deed In a naughty world.
Of the forty-two medical members of the
French chamber of deputies, only one (Dr.
Bourgois. deputy for Ia Vendee) sits on th*
right or conservative slds of th* house.
Archdeacon Fsrrar visited Oberamrcef^
gau at th* first performance this year of The
Passion Play, and lodged In the house of the
actor who played the part of Jesus.
Justice Stephen J. Field is the poorest
man—In dollars and rents—en th* supreme
beach, and yet be Is several removes from be-
ing hard up. His residence is one of the finest
in Washington.
Architecture, it is said, la the chosen pro-
fe-sinn of John Howells. thp son of the novel-
ist He Is now a student at Harvard. His
father and mother bav* gone to Lake C'ham-
plain for the summer.
Charles Kendall Adams, president of
Cornell unlveisity, was married in l^ondon on
Wednesday to Mrs. Mary Matthews Barnes,
widow of A. R. Barn**, th* well known book
publisher of New York.
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